ACCESSIBLE CONTENT: Letter Spacing and Screen Readers

Colorful wooden blocks showing letters A through E

Did you know that screen readers cannot pronounce words correctly if there are spaces between letters in a word?

Solution

Remove spaces between letters in the same word.

Example

apple instead of  a p p l e

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